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Materialize to Workday integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Materialize and Workday in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Materialize and Workday

Land the financial records from Workday in Materialize continuously, and write results back, without building or maintaining a pipeline.

Finance data belongs in the warehouse: revenue, invoices, payments, and customers joined with everything else the business measures. Getting it there usually means an extraction pipeline that breaks quietly and delivers yesterday's numbers.

Stacksync syncs Workers, Organizations, Positions, Compensation from Workday into tables in Materialize in real time, and the connection works in both directions: values computed in Materialize can be written back to fields in Workday where you want them operational. Schema changes are handled, API limits are managed, and the sync is something you configure rather than code you maintain.

Common use cases

  • 01 Sync worker records from Workday into IT and identity systems so hires, transfers, and terminations provision access automatically.
  • 02 Replicate worker, organization, and compensation data into a secured database for people analytics without giving analysts tenant access.
  • 03 Drive alerting and operational tooling from SUBSCRIBE change streams instead of scheduled queries.
  • 04 Maintain real-time inventory, usage, or account-health counters consumed by customer-facing applications.

Common sync patterns

Finance analytics without ETL

Invoices, payments, and customer records from Workday arrive in Materialize as queryable tables, current within seconds instead of a day behind.

Revenue joined with everything else

Analysts combine Workday's financial records with product, marketing, or operational data already in Materialize for reporting the finance system cannot do alone.

Write-back of computed fields

Scores or segments computed in Materialize, like payment-risk flags or customer tiers, sync back onto records in Workday where the finance team can act on them.

What you can sync between Materialize and Workday

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Materialize objects Workday objects How this pairing syncs
Indexes In-memory arrangements that make view reads fast for serving workloads. Workers The central HCM record covering employment, job, and personal data; the anchor of most syncs. Indexes is specific to Materialize and Workers to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Clusters Compute pools that isolate ingestion, view maintenance, and serving. Organizations Supervisory and company hierarchies read to drive routing and reporting in other systems. Clusters is specific to Materialize and Organizations to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Connections & Secrets Stored credentials and endpoints used by sources and sinks. Positions Job seats synced with recruiting and planning tools. Connections & Secrets is specific to Materialize and Positions to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Schemas & Databases Namespaces that organize objects a sync targets. Compensation Pay components read into payroll, planning, and equity systems under strict access control. Schemas & Databases is specific to Materialize and Compensation to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tables User-managed tables that accept INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE from sync pipelines. Time Off and Absence Balances and requests synced with scheduling and workforce tools. Tables is specific to Materialize and Time Off and Absence to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Sources Ingestion points (Kafka, Postgres CDC, MySQL CDC, webhook) that feed external data into Materialize. Payroll Results Completed pay data exported to finance and benefits systems. Sources is specific to Materialize and Payroll Results to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Materialize and Workday

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Materialize Workday Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in Materialize are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. SUBSCRIBE queries stream row-level changes of any view or table to the client.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Workday through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Workday Materialize Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Workday for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling, including transaction-log criteria on SOAP operations to fetch objects changed since a given moment.

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to Materialize as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

What ships with Materialize ⇄ Workday

Connect Materialize and Workday for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Materialize–Workday connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Materialize or Workday instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Materialize or Workday data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Materialize or Workday record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Materialize ⇄ Workday sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Materialize and Workday.

How the Materialize and Workday connectors work

Materialize

Integration surface
PostgreSQL wire protocol (SQL)
Authentication
Database credentials (username/password; app passwords in the managed cloud service)
Change detection
SUBSCRIBE queries stream row-level changes of any view or table to the client
Capabilities
read · write · CDC

Workday

Integration surface
SOAP Workday Web Services (WWS), a REST API, and Reports-as-a-Service (RaaS) endpoints for custom reports
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 for the REST API; integration system users with WS-Security or certificate-based auth for SOAP
Change detection
Polling, including transaction-log criteria on SOAP operations to fetch objects changed since a given moment; no general webhook surface
Capabilities
read · write
How it works

How to connect Materialize to Workday — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Materialize and Workday with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Materialize connected
    Workday connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Materialize and Workday objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Materialize ⇄ Workday
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Materialize Workday
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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As a data company, we understand the importance of keeping your data secure. Stacksync is built with security best practices to keep your data safe at every layer, and is DPF-certified for US, EU, UK and CH data transfers.

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SSO & SCIM

Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.

Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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